Quelli ch'usurpa in terra il luogo mio,
il luogo mio, il luogo mio, che vaca
ne la presenza del Figliuol di Dio,
fatt' ha del
cimitero
mio cloaca
del sangue e de la puzza; onde 'l perverso
che cadde di qua su, la giu si placa>>.
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and ye shall hear what he beheld
In other lands, where he was doomed to go:
Lands that contain the
monuments
of Eld,
Ere Greece and Grecian arts by barbarous hands were quelled.
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Byron |
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What ruined a
Crassus?
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Haile Mother of Mankind, whose
fruitful
Womb
Shall fill the World more numerous with thy Sons
Then with these various fruits the Trees of God 390
Have heap'd this Table.
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Milton |
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7 and any additional
terms imposed by the
copyright
holder.
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fastidiosam desere copiam et
molem
propinquam
nubibus arduis,
omitte mirari beatae
fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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IV
Unthrifty
loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Yet,
since the god cannot have
commanded
evil, it is a duty also.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I call him
bankrupt
in the courts of song Who hath her gold to eye and pays her not, Defaulter do I call the knave who hath got Her silver in his heart and doth her wrong.
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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) Ha, there's drinking going on
here; we shall get
something
here.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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Is it the dirt, the squalor,
the wear of human bodies,
and the dead faces of our
neighbours?
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Imagists |
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That is all fine and good, I know;
And just as the priest has often spoke,
Only with
somewhat
different phrases.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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O friend, my friend, as God might be my friend,
Thou only hast not
trampled
on my tears.
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Euripides - Electra |
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"
And God made no answer, but like a
thousand
swift wings passed
away.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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Then the lord of the land[1]
comes from his chamber and
welcomes
Sir Gawayne, telling him that he is
to consider the place as his own.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Far I have wandered throughout the Nine Lands;
Wherever
I went such manners had disappeared.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Belinda burns with more than mortal ire,
And fierce
Thalestris
fans the rising fire.
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Alexander Pope |
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the defective work may elect to provide a
replacement
copy in lieu of a
refund.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Along the garden-wall the bees
With hairy bellies pass between
The
staminate
and pistilate,
Blest office of the epicene.
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T.S. Eliot |
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And so it chanced, for envious pride,
That no peer or
superior
could abide,
Made Pompey Caesar's fated enemy.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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Indeed, I selected this wood because I thought it the
least likely to contain
anything
else.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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For we were nursed upon the self-same hill,
Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill:
Together both, ere the high lawns appear'd
Under the opening eye-lids of the morn,
We drove a-field, and both
together
heard
What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,
Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night,
Oft till the star that rose at evening bright
Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
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Golden Treasury |
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Thou mightst have seen her in the forest rude
Picking the
scattered
remnants of its wood.
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Shelley |
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The rain fell softly now; the squall,
That to a torrent drove the trees,
Had whirled beyond us to let fall
Its tumult on the
whitening
seas.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs,
cardboard
boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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But there may be another; and
what has
happened
in the past may suggest what may happen in the future.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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What
Wilt thou do when the
remaining
ills thou learn'st?
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
such as creation of derivative works, reports,
performances
and
research.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Painting
is truly a luminous language.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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After a few moments the coach stopped before the Palace, and
Marya, after
crossing
a long suite of empty and sumptuous rooms, was
ushered at last into the boudoir of the Tzarina.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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But death he could not worke himselfe thereby;
For
thousand
times he so himselfe had drest,?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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lest while you're lagging,
I may
remember
him!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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If kings and kingdoms once
distracted
be, II.
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Robert Herrick |
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I haue almost forgot the taste of Feares:
The time ha's beene, my sences would haue cool'd
To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire
Would at a dismall
Treatise
rowze, and stirre
As life were in't.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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Besides when, too,
The clouds are winnowed by the winds, or scattered
Smitten on top by heat of sun, they send
Their rainy moisture, and distil their drops,
Even as the wax, by fiery warmth on top,
Wasteth and
liquefies
abundantly.
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Lucretius |
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I of
Book II in the new text, the
situation
in the legend is as follows.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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He feels from Juda's land
The dreaded infant's hand;
The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn;
Nor all the gods beside
Longer dare abide,
Nor Typhon huge ending in snaky twine:
Our Babe, to shew his Godhead true,
Can in his
swaddling
bands control the damned crew.
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Golden Treasury |
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qui natam possis
complexu
auellere matris,
complexu matris retinentem auellere natam,
et iuueni ardenti castam donare puellam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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"
A SEA DIRGE
[Picture: The sea, beach and children]
THERE are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost,
The income-tax, gout, an
umbrella
for three--
That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most
Is a thing they call the Sea.
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Lewis Carroll |
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Piety, twin sister dear
Of
Justice!
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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For such a
supersensual
sensual bond
As that gray cricket chirpt of at our hearth--
Touch flax with flame--a glance will serve--the liars!
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Tennyson |
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We noticed smallest things, --
Things
overlooked
before,
By this great light upon our minds
Italicized, as 't were.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Thine is the mercy that
cherished
our furrows,
Thine is the mercy that fostered our grain.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin
wherewith
the Face of Man
Is blacken'd--Man's forgiveness give--and take!
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And if he do not his requeste,
He shal as mochel him moleste
As his felow, for that he 5275
May not
fulfille
his voluntee
[As] fully as he hath requered.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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New
occasions
teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth;
Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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Send your
pitchers
afloat on the tide,
Gather the leaves ere the dawn be old,
Grind them in mortars of amber and gold,
The fresh green leaves of the henna-tree.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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--The third
requisite
in our poet or maker is imitation, to
be able to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own
use.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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Note: Selene, the Moon, loved
Endymion
on Mount Latmos, while he slept.
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Ronsard |
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A
vision of Hy Brazel forebodes
national
troubles.
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Yeats |
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These relics once, dear pledges of himself,
The traitor left me, which, O earth, to thee
Here on this very
threshold
I commit-
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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'
Striving for more ideal height;
And as the fountain, falling thence,
Crawls baffled through the common gutter,
So, from his speech's eminence,
He shrinks into the present tense,
Unkinged
by foolish bread and butter.
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James Russell Lowell |
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"
They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed
"He was always a
desperate
wag!
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Lewis Carroll |
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How should thy friend fear the
seasons?
| Guess: |
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Sappho |
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In the uncritical and
boisterous
atmosphere of the Satyr-play it was
natural hospitality, not especially laudable or surprising.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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He was banished to
Kiukiang
(then called Hsun-yang) with the rank of
Sub-Prefect.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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Der Gott, der Bub' und Madchen
schuf,
Erkannte gleich den edelsten Beruf,
Auch selbst
Gelegenheit
zu machen.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Felon pagans come
cantering
in their wrath.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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"
--"Deeds of home; that live yet
Fresh as new--deeds of fondness or fret;
Ancient words that were kindly
expressed
or unkindly,
These, these have their heeds.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That
censures
falsely what they see aright?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Updated editions will replace the
previous
one--the old editions
will be renamed.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Another peculiarity almost as
prominent is the beginning sentences,
especially
in answer to questions,
with 'well.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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Affections are as thoughts to her,
The measures of her hours;
Her feelings have the flagrancy,
The
freshness
of young flowers;
And lovely passions, changing oft,
So fill her, she appears
The image of themselves by turns,--
The idol of past years!
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Poe - 5 |
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Elle est dans ma voix, la
criarde!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary
Woolnoth
kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The generous lovers,
studious
to succeed,
Bid their whole herds and flocks in banquets bleed;
By precious gifts the vow sincere display:
You, only you, make her ye love your prey.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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--_
The motions of the
heavenly
bodies, in every system, bear at all times
the same uniform relation to each other; these expressions, therefore,
are strictly just.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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]
* * * * *
GUILT AND SORROW; OR, INCIDENTS UPON
SALISBURY
PLAIN
Composed 1791-4.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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So when I saw myself
defeated
by this ox filth, I outbade the fellow,
crying, "Two hundred!
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| Source: |
Aristophanes |
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"Stout be the heart, nor slow
The foot to follow the
impetuous
will,
Nor the hand slack upon the loom of deeds.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,
Or bless the
mellowing
year,
When the blasts of winter appear?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And sin ther helpeth noon
avysement
1300
To letten it, lat it passe out of minde;
And lat us shape a bettre wey to finde.
| Guess: |
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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For three long years they will not sow
Or root or
seedling
there:
For three long years the unblessed spot
Will sterile be and bare,
And look upon the wondering sky
With unreproachful stare.
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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"--
"Here's
sculpture!
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Can pardon
Requicken
that sod?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning |
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Half-past two,
The street-lamp said,
"Remark the cat which
flattens
itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter.
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| Source: |
Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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The Writer of the following lines died at Florence, as he was
preparing for a voyage to one of the wildest of the Sporades, which he
had bought, and where he had fitted up the ruins of an old building,
and where it was his hope to have realised a scheme of life, suited
perhaps to that happier and better world of which he is now an
inhabitant, but hardly
practicable
in this.
| Guess: |
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Shelley |
|
IX
The foremost word of all Blancandrin spake,
And to the King: "May God
preserve
you safe,
The All Glorious, to Whom ye're bound to pray!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Chanson de Roland |
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Sweet dreams of
pleasant
streams
By happy, silent, moony beams!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
blake-poems |
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That some
disaster
cleft Thy scheme
And tore us wide apart,
So that no cry can cross, I deem;
For Thou art mild of heart,
And would'st not shape and shut us in
Where voice can not he heard:
'Tis plain Thou meant'st that we should win
Thy succour by a word.
| Guess: |
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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He was emotionally and
artistically
unable to forge a finished work from them.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mallarme - Poems |
|
'aufer abhinc lacrimas, balatro, et
compesce
querelas:
omnia perfunctus uitai praemia marces,
sed quia semper aues quod abest, praesentia temnis,
imperfecta tibi elapsast ingrataque uita
et nec opinanti mors ad caput adstitit ante
quam satur ac plenus possis discedere rerum.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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A poor, weak, palsy-stricken, churchyard thing,
Whose passing-bell may ere the
midnight
toll;
Whose prayers for thee, each morn and evening,
Were never miss'd.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Keats |
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[g] Varro was
universally
allowed to be the most learned of the
Romans.
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Tacitus |
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Those of you who want to
download
any eBook before announcement
can get to them as follows, and just download by date.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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He was
examining
the apple-trees which the
breath of autumn had already deprived of their leaves, and, with the
help of an old gardener, he was enveloping them in straw.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Is it perhaps some foolish freak
Of thine, to put the words I speak
Into a
plaintive
ditty?
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Longfellow |
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_Now_ is past since last we met
Beneath the hazel bough;
Before the evening sun was set
Her shadow
stretched
below.
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John Clare |
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Cosi dintorno a l'albero robusto
gridaron li altri; e l'animal binato:
<
conserva
il seme d'ogne giusto>>.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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e
rycheste
of that cette.
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Tis but a trial all must undergo;
To teach unthankful mortals how to prize
That
happiness
vain man's denied to know,
Until he's called to claim it in the skies.
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John Clare |
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To the third Otho this too late is known,
Of Parma and the
pleasant
Reggio dread;
Who shall by him be spoiled in sudden strife,
Of his possessions and his wretched life.
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Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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The earliest
reported
example of the musical form is this song Kalenda Maya, supposedly written to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.
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Troubador Verse |
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In sadness hope, in
gladness
fear
'Gainst coming change will fortify
Your breast.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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